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3 | ->''"Raised on hamburgers and soda pop,\ |
4 | She's got a winning smile that's hard to top.\ |
5 | A credit to her family, the ideal teen,\ |
6 | She's all America's daughter, she's a beauty queen."'' |
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8 | A 1975 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Creator/MichaelRitchie, centering around a California beauty pageant and its participants. |
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10 | The large EnsembleCast includes Creator/BruceDern, Creator/BarbaraFeldon, Creator/MichaelKidd, Creator/GeoffreyLewis, Creator/EricShea, Creator/NicholasPryor, Creator/TitosVandis, Creator/PaulBenedict, Creator/WilliamTraylor, and Creator/DennisDugan, among others. |
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12 | It was released on July 9, 1975. |
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16 | !!Tropes for the film: |
17 | * AteHisGun: Subverted. Andy (Pryor), at the end of his rope, has a pistol to his mouth when his wife smirks "If you've got a problem, don't try to solve it, just take the coward's way out". He stops to consider the cause of his condition... and turns the gun on her. |
18 | * BeautyContest: The film is a dark comedic satire of beauty pageants. |
19 | * DarkHorseVictory: The plot concerns a beauty pageant, and while a number of the contestants are given a spotlight in the story, the actual winner is a character who wasn't featured at all. In fact, the girl given the most screentime doesn't even place. |
20 | * HehHehYouSaidX: One subplot features a trio of boys trying to get pictures of the beauty pageant contestants. One of them, Freddy, continually riffs on the contestants' names (and other things): |
21 | --> '''Little Bob''': ''(getting out a car)'' Keep the motor running.\ |
22 | '''Freddy''': I got ''my'' motor running!\ |
23 | '''Chuck''': Aw, geez.\ |
24 | '''Freddy''': Look at that one from Bakersfield! Ah, I got something she can bake in her field.\ |
25 | '''Chuck''': ''[{{Beat}}]'' I hate him. |
26 | * OneWordTitle: '''Smile'''. |
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